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   Library: iMSTK

   Copyright (c) Kitware, Inc. & Center for Modeling, Simulation,
   & Imaging in Medicine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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#pragma once

#include <atomic>

namespace imstk
{
namespace ParallelUtils
{
///
/// \brief The SpinLock class
/// \brief A SpinLock is a light weight mutex,
/// which can be safely locked and unlocked exclusively by only one thread at a time
///
class SpinLock
{
public:
    ///
    /// \brief Constructor
    ///
    SpinLock() = default;

    ///
    /// \brief Copy constructor, must be implemented as an empty function
    /// because the member variable of type std::atomic_flag has copy constructor deleted
    ///
    SpinLock(const SpinLock&) {}

    ///
    /// \brief Start a thread-safe region, where only one thread can execute at a time until
    /// a call to the unlock function
    ///
    void lock()
    {
        while (m_Lock.test_and_set(std::memory_order_acquire)) {}
    }

    ///
    /// \brief End a thread-safe region
    ///
    void unlock()
    {
        m_Lock.clear(std::memory_order_release);
    }

private:
    std::atomic_flag m_Lock;
};
} // end namespace ParallelUtils
} // end namespace imstk
